Report security breaches the Service Desk ICT Services

Please report security breaches to:

• ICT Service Desk (during office hours)
• CERT (outside office hours)

What constitutes a security breach?

A security breach potentially has a damaging effect on your computer or the network by which you are confronted with loss, misuse or manipulation or information or copyright infringement. Examples include: unauthorised forced entry into a computer system (hacking) and the introduction of software viruses.

CERT

The Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) oversees computer and network security and plays a coordinating role involving the prevention, detection and resolution of security breaches.

Without computer and network security, primary business processes are likewise in danger. The following scenarios are possible:

• hacker activities shut down the financial administration system;
• the email system no longer works because it has been taken over;
• unauthorised individuals make off with research data;
• simulations are disrupted as a result of computer or network failure;
• AUAS student data is made public.